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How much traffic can a server take? - 4/10/2002 10:50:19
I host a web site on a dedicated Win2000 server that I lease from Verio. It's a P3 800 mhz machine with 156 meg of RAM. I just began advertising my web site and am starting to get some traffic. I am curious as to how many users my site can handle.
I use Urhcin as my traffic reporting tool. Yesterday, I had 150 visitors. Does that mean I am at 30% of my server's capacity? 50%? 80%?
I have one Access database application on my site, so I know that one issue will be Access' limitations. I recognize that I will have to upgrade to SQL if I start to get more than 5-10 users of the Access database.
But other than that, how much traffic can a web server handle? What are the best tools to monitor the capacity/performance of my web server?
I would appreciate anyone's thoughts.
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Gil
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RE: How much traffic can a server take? - 4/10/2002 11:54:05
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I host a web site on a dedicated Win2000 server that I lease from Verio. It's a P3 800 mhz machine with 156 meg of RAM. I just began advertising my web site and am starting to get some traffic. I am curious as to how many users my site can handle.
The "server" should be able to handle well into the thousands - I would go to atleast 512MB RAM, as cheap as RAM is now.
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I use Urhcin as my traffic reporting tool. Yesterday, I had 150 visitors. Does that mean I am at 30% of my server's capacity? 50%? 80%?
I'd say less than 1%
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I have one Access database application on my site, so I know that one issue will be Access' limitations. I recognize that I will have to upgrade to SQL if I start to get more than 5-10 users of the Access database.
Remember the limits on access (probably 15 -20) is concurrent users - so, 15 concurrent figure each spends 10 seconds connected to the db = 5400/hour
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But other than that, how much traffic can a web server handle?
Probably more critical is gonna be the bandwidth - anything less than a T3 is gonna get full pretty quick
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What are the best tools to monitor the capacity/performance of my web server?
IMHO, HP Openview
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